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D-Index
37
Citations
9009
World Ranking
2351
National Ranking
846

Sascha Hilgenfeldt publication distribution in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sascha Hilgenfeldt sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 176 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more.

Sascha Hilgenfeldt D-index placement in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sascha Hilgenfeldt sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 83 scientists 31 D-Index: 113 scientists 32 D-Index: 144 scientists 33 D-Index: 153 scientists 34 D-Index: 189 scientists 35 D-Index: 158 scientists 36 D-Index: 139 scientists 37 D-Index: 127 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 126 scientists 40 D-Index: 104 scientists 41 D-Index: 100 scientists 42 D-Index: 107 scientists 43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44 D-Index: 103 scientists 45 D-Index: 79 scientists 46 D-Index: 88 scientists 47 D-Index: 70 scientists 48 D-Index: 83 scientists 49 D-Index: 44 scientists 50 D-Index: 64 scientists 51 D-Index: 56 scientists 52 D-Index: 50 scientists 53 D-Index: 48 scientists 54 D-Index: 58 scientists 55 D-Index: 52 scientists 56 D-Index: 48 scientists 57 D-Index: 42 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 37 scientists 61 D-Index: 42 scientists 62 D-Index: 44 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 33 scientists 65 D-Index: 29 scientists 66 D-Index: 23 scientists 67 D-Index: 29 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 19 scientists 70 D-Index: 34 scientists 71 D-Index: 26 scientists 72 D-Index: 19 scientists 73 D-Index: 18 scientists 74 D-Index: 19 scientists 75 D-Index: 14 scientists 76 D-Index: 19 scientists 77 D-Index: 8 scientists 78 D-Index: 18 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 17 scientists 82 D-Index: 11 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 7 scientists 85 D-Index: 9 scientists 86 D-Index: 8 scientists 87 D-Index: 6 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 10 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 4 scientists 93+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to the understanding of bubble dynamics foam dynamics including structure drainage, coarsening, aging, and instabilities bubblepowered microfluidics and mechanics, structure, and statistics of biological cells and tissues

Overview

Sascha Hilgenfeldt is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a focus on related subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Ocean Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, and Surfaces, Coatings and Films.

Their work covers several main research topics, including:

  • Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies
  • Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
  • Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
  • Granular flow and fluidized beds
  • Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
  • Material Dynamics and Properties
  • Theoretical and Computational Physics

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Gas-Liquid Foam Dynamics: From Structural Elements to Continuum Descriptions" (2022), published in Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
  • "An unrecognized inertial force induced by flow curvature in microfluidics" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Exceptionally dense and resilient critically jammed polydisperse disk packings" (2024), published in Soft Matter
  • "Simple, General Criterion for Onset of Disclination Disorder on Curved Surfaces" (2020), published in Physical Review Letters
  • "Structural Measures as Guides to Ultrastable States in Overjammed Packings" (2022), published in Physical Review Letters

Hilgenfeldt frequently publishes in outlets such as arXiv (Cornell University), Physical Review Letters, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Soft Matter, and the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

Frequent co-authors in Hilgenfeldt's research include Siddhansh Agarwal, Mattia Gazzola, Sangwoo Kim, Angus McMullen, and Jasna Brujić.

In 2016, they were recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for contributions related to the understanding of bubble dynamics, foam dynamics including structure, drainage, coarsening, aging, and instabilities, bubble-powered microfluidics, and the mechanics, structure, and statistics of biological cells and tissues.

Best Publications

  • Single bubble sonoluminescence

    Michael P. Brenner;Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Detlef Lohse

  • Controlled vesicle deformation and lysis by single oscillating bubbles

    Philippe Marmottant;Sascha Hilgenfeldt

  • A model for large amplitude oscillations of coated bubbles accounting for buckling and rupture

    Philippe Marmottant;Philippe Marmottant;Sander van der Meer;Marcia Emmer;Michel Versluis

  • A Generalized View of Foam Drainage: Experiment and Theory

    Stephan A. Koehler;Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Howard A. Stone

  • Phase diagrams for sonoluminescing bubbles

    Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Detlef Lohse;Michael P. Brenner

  • Dynamics of coarsening foams: accelerated and self-limiting drainage.

    Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Stephan A. Koehler;Howard A. Stone

  • A simple explanation of light emission in sonoluminescence

    Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Siegfried Grossmann;Detlef Lohse

  • Sonoluminescing Air Bubbles Rectify Argon

    Detlef Lohse;Michael P. Brenner;Todd F. Dupont;Sascha Hilgenfeldt

  • Analysis of Rayleigh–Plesset dynamics for sonoluminescing bubbles

    Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Michael P. Brenner;Siegfried Grossmann;Detlef Lohse

  • Liquid Flow through Aqueous Foams: The Node-Dominated Foam Drainage Equation

    Stephan A. Koehler;Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Howard A. Stone

  • A bubble-driven microfluidic transport element for bioengineering

    Philippe Marmottant;Sascha Hilgenfeldt

  • An Accurate von Neumann's Law for Three-Dimensional Foams

    Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Andrew M. Kraynik;Stephan A. Koehler;Howard A. Stone

  • Response of bubbles to diagnostic ultrasound: a unifying theoretical approach

    Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Detlef Lohse;M. Zomack

  • Drainage of single Plateau borders: direct observation of rigid and mobile interfaces.

    Stephan A. Koehler;Stephan A. Koehler;Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Eric R. Weeks;Howard A. Stone

  • Inert gas accumulation in sonoluminescing bubbles

    Detlef Lohse;Sascha Hilgenfeldt

  • Ultrasound-induced microbubble coalescence

    Michiel Postema;Philippe Marmottant;Charles T. Lancée;Sascha Hilgenfeldt

  • Foam drainage on the microscale

    S.A. Koehler;Sascha Hilgenfeldt;H.A. Stone

  • Sound scattering and localized heat deposition of pulse-driven microbubbles

    Sascha Hilgenfeldt;Detlef Lohse;Michael Zomack

  • Size-sensitive sorting of microparticles through control of flow geometry

    Cheng Wang;Shreyas V. Jalikop;Sascha Hilgenfeldt

  • Microfluidics with ultrasound-driven bubbles

    P.G.M. Marmottant;J.P. Raven;Johannes G.E. Gardeniers;Johan G. Bomer

  • Phase diagrams for sonoluminescing bubbles

    Detlef Lohse;Michael P. Brenner;Sascha Hilgenfeldt

Frequent Co-Authors

Detlef Lohse
Detlef Lohse University of Twente
Philippe Marmottant
Philippe Marmottant Grenoble Alpes University
Cheng Wang
Cheng Wang University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Howard A. Stone
Howard A. Stone Princeton University
Michael P. Brenner
Michael P. Brenner University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michel Versluis
Michel Versluis University of Twente
Siegfried Grossmann
Siegfried Grossmann Philipp University of Marburg
Richard W. Carthew
Richard W. Carthew Northwestern University
Nico de Jong
Nico de Jong Delft University of Technology
Stephen H. Davis
Stephen H. Davis Northwestern University

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